Coat.



PATENTED DEC 27, 1904.

A. F. ShARBN.

COAT.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.16. 1904.

awuewtoz fittomwg UNITED STATES Patented December 27, 1904.

ANTON F. SKAREN, OF WVARREN, MINNESOTA.

COAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,804, dated December 27, 1904.

Application filed February 16, 1904:. Serial No. 193,332.

To (0H whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, ANTON F. SKAREN, a citizen of the United States by application, residing at arren, in the county of Marshall and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wearing-apparel, and particularly to an overcoat of special design, the bod y and half the sleeves thereof being in one and the same piece of clothwithout intervening seams.

The object of the invention is to provide a coat having improved fitting lapels and collar relative to the body of the coat and to pro vide means for forming breast-pockets and the flaps thereof, so that the latter will hang over or depend from the pockets to entirely cover the same, yet be in one and the same piece with the body or breast of the coat.

1n coats of this character, as far as known to me, the sleeves are in one and the same piece with the body of the coat, which prevents the sleeve and shoulder fitting properly and will not admit of adjustment of the sleeve, and the latter have no cuffs. Pockets have list on both sides, showing seams at both ends of the pockets, the flaps of which do not'cover the pocket, the bottoms of such coats being straight, and there are various other objections to be found in the coats.

1n the coat hereinafter more fully described the underarm of the sleeve is cut out and a separate undersleeve-piece is employed, which afi ords a better fit of the sleeve and permits it to be adjusted into desired position. The breast pocket line is inclined instead of straight, and the pocket-flaps depend from the edge of the breast-piece and with the latter cover the pockets and all of the breastseam, so that no seam or seams appear in the flaps and no part of the breast-seams are visible.

1n the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, Figure 1 is a plan view of the coat cutout. Fig. 2 is a front perspective view of the coat. Fig. 3 is a similar view looking at the back of the coat.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

The coat-skirt 1 has a slightly-curved bottom edge 2, from which the front edges 3 slant inwardly, and the skirt is provided with vertical pocket-vents 4:. From the top end of the edges 3 the cloth is cut upwardly and inwardly to form inclined breast edges 5, which terminate in approximately semicircular cut-outs 6, forming part of the armhole. The sleeve top portions 7 extend from the back-body of the coat, where they have a partround corner 8 and a compound-curved portion 9, the latter being opposite an arc-shaped curve 10 of the breast-portions 11. The outer ends of the sleeve portions are concaved, and so are the ends of the separate or under-sleeve portions 12, and the ends of the said portions 7 and 12 are extended and pointed to permit of their forming the cuffs 13 when folded back upon the sleeves, and the sleeve parts 7 and 12 are seamed together through the cuff at 141 and 15.

The neck-opening 23 is formed by the par-.

allel vertical edges 17 of the breast portions 11, joined by a semicircular back neck-curve 18, and from said edges the lapelled edges 19 extend, the dotted line A indicating the crease or fold of the lapels. The outer edge 20 of the breast portions 11 is parallel with the edges 17 and has a pocket-flap 21, which depends over side breast-pockets 22, and the said edges overlap and entirely conceal the seam which joins them to the inclined edges 5.

It will be observed that the undersleeve part, being separate and independent, is capable of adjustment relative to the other sleeve part, so that the shoulder, armhole, and the whole sleeve may be made to fit perfectly, that owing to the peculiar cut of the coat less cloth and fewer seams are required than usual, and that the shape in which the neck-opening and lapels are cut affords a better fit than is usual in this class of coats.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A coat or similar garment comprising in a single piece, the skirt, the body-back, the

top sleeve portions projecting therefrom, the breast portions having outer edges parallel With the sides of the neck-opening, a pocketfiap extending from said edges, and the separate or independent undersleeve portions.

2. A coat or similar garment comprising in a single piece, the skirt having a curved bottom edge, slanting side or front edges, and inclined top edges, the breast portions having a U-shaped neck-opening therebetWeen, the outer edges of the breast portions being parallel With the sides of the neck-opening and provided With extended pocket-flaps, the top sleeve portions having a eompound-curved edge at their inner end, and the independent or separate nndersleeve portions.

3. A coat or similar garment comprising in a single piece, the skirt having inclined top edges terminating in semicircular openings, the breast portions having a U-shaped neckopening therebetween, the outer edges of the rate undersleeve portions, and the flaps ex-,

tended from the outer edge of the breast portions to cover the breast-pockets.

In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

ANTON F. SKAREN.

l/Vitnesses:

CARL YoUNenAHL, J. A. MATTsoN. 

